For at the voice of the LORD, Assyria will be shattered; He will strike with His rod, establishing that God's voice and rod are the agents of Assyria's defeat and destruction. Assyria, the great military power threatening the nations, will be struck down by God's power. The striking with a rod suggests both the precision of judgment and the relationship between master and subordinate—the rod used to direct an ox. The oracle establishes that Assyria, despite its apparent invincibility, remains subject to God's judgment and will be shattered at God's word.

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